Hi, this powerpc machine is running 3.5.0-rc5 for 2 days now and this happened today: ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 3.5.0-rc5-00003-gca24a14-dirty #1 Not tainted --------------------------------- inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage. kswapd0/237 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (xfs_iolock_reclaimable){+.+.?.}, at: [<c01d0a24>] xfs_ilock+0x84/0xc0 {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at: [<c00766e8>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xac/0xe4 [<c00d33e0>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x3c/0x134 [<c01e25dc>] kmem_zone_alloc+0xa4/0x114 [<c01e2668>] kmem_zone_zalloc+0x1c/0x58 [<c0221ca4>] _xfs_trans_alloc+0x40/0x84 [<c0222a0c>] xfs_trans_alloc+0xa0/0xbc [<c01e7148>] xfs_attr_inactive+0x5c/0x1a4 [<c01e19d8>] xfs_inactive_attrs+0x58/0x10c [<c01e1c74>] xfs_inactive+0x1e8/0x440 [<c01da5e4>] xfs_fs_evict_inode+0x98/0xac [<c00f5a90>] evict+0xc8/0x1b0 [<c00f20d0>] d_delete+0x1cc/0x1f8 [<c00e8100>] vfs_rmdir+0x138/0x13c [<c00e8220>] do_rmdir+0x11c/0x12c [<c00117e8>] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 irq event stamp: 183359685 hardirqs last enabled at (183359685): [<c0539f20>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x40/0x9c hardirqs last disabled at (183359684): [<c053952c>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x30/0x84 softirqs last enabled at (183358622): [<c000f3e8>] call_do_softirq+0x14/0x24 softirqs last disabled at (183358603): [<c000f3e8>] call_do_softirq+0x14/0x24 My mount options: # grep xfs /proc/mounts /dev/mapper/wdc1 /mnt/media xfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,attr2,noquota 0 0 /dev/mapper/sam0 /mnt/vault0 xfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,attr2,noquota 0 0 /dev/mapper/sam1 /mnt/vault1 xfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,attr2,noquota 0 0 The whole dmesg & .config is here: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.5.0-rc5/soft_lockup/xfs/ Note: the -dirty flag in the kernel version comes from a single patch applied so that the system would boot: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/2/32 Thanks, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #339: manager in the cable duct _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs